State v. Bennion’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2023
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1
Relies on Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Oregon v. Hass · Baldwin v. New York · Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie · Cheff v. Schnackenberg
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial by jury may be waived in all criminal cases, by the consent of all parties, expressed in open court, and in civil actions by the consent of the parties, signified in such manner as may be prescribed by law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“serious and substantial enough [to] rise to the level of criminal sanction... . In such a case, Article 1, § 7, would apply.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The right to a jury trial is a fundamental right, and must be guarded jealously.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Vasquez · State v. Key
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.